This month ... it's all about the top 30 jukebox memories (see rules below) -- relevant because it was *our* class who got a jukebox installed in the cafeteria (along with Coke machines and one of those electronic message boards).
Coming in at number 2 on this countdown ... Def Leppard's 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' (coincidentally also named the number 2 song of VH1's countdown of the 100 greatest songs of [all of] the 80's ... and also coincidentally a song that peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Top 100 charts in 1988). As you saw just a few days ago, (see #6 in this series), our administration censored Tone Loc's 'Wild Thing' ... and I'm not saying that they were racist or anything ... I'm just saying that they let this all-white-boy-English band's ode to vaginal secretions get regular airplay -- unless they just felt sorry for the one-armed drummer.
RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST: Songs are as remembered from when they were being played loudly in the cafeteria, making us all raise our voices at mealtimes in order to hear each other. All memories are believed to be accurate and will be fact checked on the interwebs to make sure that featured songs were actually released prior to June of 1989 (but since these memories are thirty years old, there is not a guarantee of 100% accuracy.) Also note that an appearance on this list is not necessarily an endorsement of the song or the artist. And if anyone out there wants to make a mixtape that we can all make copies of at the reunion, now is the time to start working on that task.
JUKEBOX MEMORY TRACK #2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU7yLn5DYQM
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